REEDVILLE — A menhaden boat named Fenwick Island, with a crew of 14 — all from the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula – went fishing off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 7, 1968.
She would never return. Only seven crewmen made it home to Virginia; the other seven perished. The boat was never recovered.
In 2005 and 2014, volunteers from the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum’s oral history project interviewed some of the survivors, rescuers and others who were on the water that day.
Those interviews, supplemented by maps, photographs, music and narration, comprise a video, “The Sinking of the Fenwick Island,” created in 2015.
The museum will sponsor a public showing of the recently updated video on Monday, Jan. 5, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fairfields Volunteer Fire Department, 119 Main St., Reedville. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted.
